Help discover the most effective way to learn

Take the 1 hour learning challenge!

See how many foreign words you can memorise in an hour using a cutting-edge learning method. As a thank-you, you'll be entered into a prize draw for a new
iPad.
We'll send you a link to your experiment so you can take part whenever you have time.

What is the Memrise Prize?

The Memrise Prize is a competition to advance our scientific knowledge of the
best ways to learn.
In it, we're pitting different learning methods against each other to see which works best. The most effective method wins $10k.

The competition

We asked the
world's top brain scientists
to create their vision of the ultimate system to learn 80 foreign vocabulary items in an hour, with a test one week later. Eleven teams from world-leading universities rose to the challenge and invented entirely new protocols for learning and tested them in empirical trials against a baseline control condition of flashcards.

Teams from these universities submitted entries to the competition

The final test

On the basis of these empirical results, we selected the
top five learning methods,
each of which showed huge boosts to learning. We're now putting the five finalists to the test with
tens of thousands of volunteers
to see which is most effective in the wild, outside the laboratory.

Who's behind the Memrise Prize?

The Memrise Prize is a collaboration between scientists at University College London and the learning science team at
memrise.com

Prof. David Shanks

Dr. Rosalind Potts

Memrise.com

The judges

Prof. Robert Bjork

Dr. Yana Weinstein

Prof. Kia Nobre

Our scientific advisory board are overseeing the competition from a scientific perspective, and will judge the winner on the basis of the data.